Posts Tagged Apple

Crashed Mac: rescue files with Linux

Posted by on Friday, 11 May, 2012

We have a crashed 2007 Macbook, which simply won’t boot anymore. The guys at the Mac store were not able to do anything; and gave the standard answer: buy a new one! So we did, and luckily we did have Time Machine backups, which we put on the newly bought Macbook Pro. Unfortunately, the last successfully completed backup was from a few months ago – the system had been gradually crapping up more and more, and apparently wasn’t even able to complete its backups for the last few months of its life.

Now the question is, how do we get all the files off of the disk? We use Linux. Read the rest of this entry »

HP support for Scanjet on OS X 10.7 Lion

Posted by on Sunday, 6 May, 2012

I’m a long-time fan of Hewlett Packard products. They work and keep on working. And, very important, they work perfect with the Linux platform. However, turns out users on Mac OS are not so fortunate. Read the rest of this entry »